Switch-board for heat-regulating systems



(No Model.)

0. W. BRIEDER. SWITCH BOARD FOR HEAT REGULATING SYSTEMS.

Patented Feb. 10,1891.

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CHARLES W. BRIEDER, OF LINCOLN, NEBRASKA.

SWITCH-BOARD FOR HEAT-REGULATING SYSTEMS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 445,970, dated February10, 1891.

Application filed April 11, 1890.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, CHARLES W. BRIEDER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Lincoln, in the county of Lancaster and State of Nebraska,have invented a new and useful Switch-Board for Heat-Regulating Systems,of which the followin g is a specification.

This invention relates to heating systems, and more especially to theregulators therefor.

The object of the invention is to provide means for regulating the flowof heat to a certain point or room in a building from some point remotefrom the regulator as well as from the point of exit of the heat. Thisobject I accomplish by the use of a system of regulating heat, moreespecially that from a furnace, which consists of weighted dampersarranged in the flues near the source of heat, chains, wires, or cordsleading therefrom to a desired point or points, and devices at suchpoints for pulling upon said chains and fastening them to set thedampers at any desired angle within the fines, such devices constitutingthe present invention, all as will be fully explained hereinafter and asare illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is ageneral section of a building, showing three of the several fluesleading from a furnace and the regulating devices therefor. Fig. 2 is anenlarged front elevation of one of the so-called switch-boards. Fig. 3is a similar View showing the chains differently arranged. Fig. 4 is anenlarged perspective detail of one of the dampers.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, the letter F designates in thepresent instance a furnace. Leading from said furnace are the fines U,which convey the heat to the different rooms of the building, as thesittingroom S, the parlor I, and the bed-rooms B, of which the drawingsshow but one.

D are the dampers in said flues near the furnace. Each of the dampers Dis of oval shape, whereby it will always occupy an inclined positionwithin a cylindrical flue, and its trunnions or bearings are rods R,which pass through and are journaled in the sides of the flue U, one orboth of their extremes, having ordinary handles ll, whereby they can beturned by a person near the furnace each row.

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when desired. These rods R are soldered or otherwise secured to thedampers D, and their inner ends are bent and pass thence down wardly toor nearly to the lower edge of the dampers, whereby the latter areweighted at their point and will normally maintain a closed positionwithin the flue; or the dampers may be provided with a small additionalweight, the better to keep them in this position, as will be understood.

XV are wires linked to the lower edge of the dampers, and, passingloosely through holes in the upper sides of the fines, and to theprotruding ends of these wires are attached cords, wires, or chains 0,which are led over grooved rollers G or through bell-crank levers to anydesired point within the building.

Coming now to the present invention, the letter I designates what Ipreferably call a switch-board, which is provided with a number of hooksK in its face, arranged as shown in Figs. 2 and 3-that is, one aboveanother, and eyes ibelow the lowermost in One of these switch-boards issecured to the base-board or wainsc-oting of the sitting-room and thechain is led through suitable pulleys between the floor and the ceilingof the room below and behind the lathing to a point directly beneath theswitchboard. The chain then emerges and passes through the eye 2', andis provided with a number of rings 0, adapted to engage over one of the.hooks, as will be understood. The heat becoming too intense in the roomin question, the ring 0 is disengaged from the hook and moved from theposition shown in Fig. 2 to that in Fig. 3, when the damper D in theflue leading to that room will be closed; or, if preferred, the centralof the three rings may be engaged over the hook to effect only a partialclosing of the damper. The hooks are spaced a distance different fromthat between the rings, whereby a fine degree of adjustment can beattained by engaging one of the three rings over one or the other of thehooks. It is a notorious factin connection with furnaces that if theregister commonly employed at a point where the flue enters the room beclosed the hot air that is in the flue between the furnace andthatregister is constantly escaping and cooling off and there is yet aconsiderable drain upon the furnace,

. although no heat is passed into the room. By

theabove-described system, in which the heat is cut off at a pointnearthe furnace, this escape of the heat is avoided, as will be obvious, andthere is a consequent. saving of fuel. In the accompanying drawings Ihave illustrated a system of this character as applied to an ordinarydwelling. In this case it is frequently desirable to turn on the heat inthe bed-room B or parlor P, while the family is in the sitting-room S.In order to allow of this being done without descending into the cellaror ascending to the bed-room to operate the register, I lead additionalchains 0 from each flue to aswitch-board I, located in the sittingroom,which accommodates several chains and .-'.1ingS, each of which. must besuitably marked .to-indicateto-which flue it leads. A single hook Kmay-be seated in .the base-board of the severalrooms other than thesitting-room,

and the .ehain and rings may be employed 2 with this. hook, as shown.

Various arrangementsof the chains leading to a oentralsection in somecommon room injthe building will suggestv themselves and maybeemployedas necessity mayv require. .--There may even be two such stations, ifde- .tor-chain-is preferably also led to the roomin The weightattachedto the lower ..-..edge 0f the. damper must of course. beincreased according -.to the length and weight of -the;regulator chainor wire andlthe amount of friction thereonin turning corners.-;;-I.claim .as the salient points of this invention- 1. In aheat-regulatin g system, the combination, with a common source of heat,flues lead ing therefrom to several apartments, weighted dampers in saidflues near the source of heat, and a cord leading from the heavy edge ofeach damper to the apartment whose heat it controls, of a chainconnected to the end of said cord and having rings in its body, and aswitch-board in said apartment having hooks arranged in avertical lineand spaced difierently from the spacing of said rings in the chain, asand for the purpose set forth.

2. In aheat-regulating system, the combination, with a common source ofheat, flues leadin g therefrom to several apartments, weighted dampersin said flues near the source of heat, and a cord leading from the.heavy edge of each damper to the apartmentwhose heat it controls, of aswitch-board,substantially as described, in each compartment, a secondsetof cords leading one from each :damper to a common apartment,ohainsconnected to said cords and having rings :in their bodies, aswitch-board in said common apartment having a number of eyesacross itsface near its lower end, through which said iehains and rings pass,andhooks. arranged in vertical lines above said eyes,t-he hooks in eachline being farther apart than are said rings, as and for the purposehereinbefore setforth.

. In testimony that I claim the foregoing as myown I have heretoaffixedmy signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES IV. BRIEDER.

' IVitnesses:

J. H. MoCLAY, J. F. Mourns.

